A TEENAGER is looking forward to tackling her homework after being presented with a special computer.

Hannah Day, who celebrated her 13th birthday on Thursday, was born partially sighted after her eyes stopped growing when she was in the womb.

The lively teenager has some sight in her left eye, but is unable to see through the right eye.

When she was just five weeks old she underwent an unsuccessful corneal-graft on the right eye at Manchester Eye Hospital, but doctors feared touching her left eye in case they affected the little sight she has in it.

Hannah, of Rayden Crescent, Daisy Hill, has also developed cataracts, but is still able to see some colours.

Specialists have been unable to tell Hannah if her vision will continue to suffer or if she could even lose it altogether.

However, Hannah is just like any other 13-year-old and is passionate about videos, clothes and CDs.

She is a pupil at Westhoughton High School, where she has a laptop computer to help her with her work and can read braille.

Hannah was presented with the specialist "Dolphin" computer on her birthday by the Micro and Anopthalmic Children's Society (MACS).

Her parents, Belinda and Warren Day, who also have an 11-year-old daughter called Lauren, got in touch with MACS when Hannah was aged five.

The organisation, which is based in Essex, provides advice and support to 300 families all over the country and as far afield as France.

MACS helps youngsters who have been born with eye disorders such as anophthalmia which means they have no eyes, microphthalmia which means they have very small eyes or coloboma which means their eyes did not form properly.

The new computer will provide Hannah with access to the internet and spoken instructions to help her.

She said: "I am already quite good on computers.

"When I am given research homework to do it can be really difficult because it means having to go to the library with my mum and she has to repeat everything to me and as it's as though she is doing the homework."

Belinda, aged 39, who is an office manager at Next, said: "As she has been growing up it has always been really difficult to buy games and toys because so many of them are unsuitable for the visually impaired, but Hannah should get an awful lot out of the computer."